Michael Vaughan made many astute decisions as England captain, and the one he’s just made to retire from first class cricket is just about as good as any of them.
Much better that he bows out now before he became a liability to Yorkshire and suffered the ignominy of being dropped by his county, and risk tarnishing his reputation by continuing to scratch around for whatever runs he can find on the county treadmill. Where, as his record shows, he never really made many runs even when he was on top of his game.
The other great thing this announcement achieves is putting an end to the phoney war coming from the Aussies…. Warney et all kept coming out with patently ridiculous claims about how Vaughan should still be in the England side, and that he is still second only to KP in our line up!
It was obviously rubbish, and probably designed to try and pile pressure on the man who has taken his number three slot in the
No comments:
Post a Comment